Oct. 18—Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) burned by the British. ” 22—Peyton Randolph, of Virginia, died. He was the first President of Congress. Nov. 3—Montgomery captures St. Johns, Canada. ” 13—Montreal surrendered to the Americans under Montgomery. ” 20—$3,000,000 more in bills of credit issued by Congress, payable in eight years. Dec. 7—Lord Dunmore, British Governor of Virginia, defeated near Norfolk, Virginia. ” 13—A navy of thirteen vessels created by Congress. Letters of marque and reprisal granted. ” 21—The British Parliament pass a bill declaring all American vessels and goods, and those of all persons trading with them, a lawful prize, and authorizing the impressment of American sailors into the royal navy, where they might be required to fight against their own cause and friends. ” 31—General Montgomery and Colonel Arnold make an unsuccessful attack on Quebec. Montgomery is killed, Arnold wounded, and four hundred men killed, wounded, or taken prisoners. Arnold withdrew, but kept Quebec blockaded through the winter. 1776. Jan. 1—Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia, ravages the coast and burns Norfolk, but is obliged to fly to Bermuda. ” 20—Georgia prepares to join the other twelve colonies. Feb. 4—McIntosh, with an American force, destroys several vessels loading for England, near Savannah, Georgia. ” 17—Four millions more of paper money issued by Congress. March 4—Washington fortifies Dorchester Heights, overlooking Boston, which renders it untenable by the British. ” 10—The inhabitants and merchants of Boston plundered of their lighter property by the British army. ” 17—The British embark for Halifax, and Washington occupies the town. ” 18—Sir Archibald Campbell sails into Boston, and his whole force of seventeen hundred men are taken prisoners. ” 23—Congress declares all British vessels a lawful prize. April 26—Washington removes his army to New York. May 3—Sir Peter Parker, with ten ships of war and seven regiments, joins the force from Boston under General Clinton, at Cape Fear. ” 15—Congress declared that all authority under the British crown ought to be totally suppressed and government conducted by colonial representatives alone. This was only an expression of their sense of the danger to their interests and liberties of allowing British agents to act. June 7—Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, moved the Declaration of Independence. ” 8—American army in Canada, under General Sullivan, make an unsuccessful attack on the enemy. They are pressed by superior numbers, and retreat in good order, though with a loss of one thousand men prisoners, out of Canada, losing all their conquests.